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Hanford Partnership Preps Students for Success

A partnership between the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant and Oregon State University recently provided an engineering student with a unique opportunity.

Office of Environmental Management

August 27, 2024
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RICHLAND, Wash.A partnership between the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant and Oregon State University recently provided an engineering student with a unique opportunity. Caden Littrell was the first-ever student to job shadow in the plant’s engineering department. He spent a day learning engineering disciplines, meeting with engineers and touring the plant. The partnership supports student senior projects, job shadowing and recruitment opportunities for summer internships and entry-level positions. It is one of several programs Hanford contractor Bechtel National Inc. and its teaming partner, Amentum, sponsor that promote innovation and a skilled future workforce.

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